From Peter Ladner’s first column for Seattle-based Crosscut:
Vancouver’s bike infrastructure has taken a symbolic roll forward with the recent opening of the Dunsmuir Street bike lane and the pending opening of a protected harbor-to-inlet north-south lane along Hornby Street. Merchants and drivers are protesting, as in Seattle, but the bikes keep rolling along.
More here.
For an update on what Portland is planning, bike-wise, go here.
And in Paris, according to the Vancouver Sun …
Hundreds of kilometres of new dedicated bike lanes are being rolled out on the streets of the City of Light, cyclists are winning new road rights and the public bicycle service launched by Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe in 2007 is expanding to encourage more Parisians to ditch their cars and pedal.
“We’ve entered a new era,” said Cecile Chartier, a member of the cycling association Velo 15et7. “Five years ago people were scandalized when bike lanes were introduced, as if they were nuclear power plants. They said they would never be used. Now they are accepted without question.”
In Toronto, meanwhile, Bixi – the Montreal-based bike-sharing system – has arrived. Here`s “Bixi,” the hip-hop anthem:
